Rayles
This game is taken from the book On Numbers and Games by John Conway (Academic Press, 1976). It is a combination of the games Rim and Kayles.
What you need
How to play
- To set the game up, draw some dots that are randomly placed on the paper, like this:
- At each turn, a player draws a closed loop that goes through
exactly one or two dots and does not meet any other loop. (A closed loop is a line that starts and stops on the same dot and doesn't cross itself anywhere in between.)
- The player who draws the last possible loop loses.
- Here is how a round which starts with the dots above might begin:
